Family Storytelling Night®

Family Storytelling Night® (without books) is an interactive and fun!) parent, family, and community engagement event with ongoing supports after the event keep the benefits rolling all year long.

This unique time-tested event—with its a long record of success—celebrates early literacy (and school-age literacy) and the richness of individual, family, and cultural heritage, uplifting all through the power of shared true stories.

Family Storytelling Night supports programs, schools, and communities in achieving key goals, including:

• Parent engagement.
• Family engagement.
• Community engagement.
• Early literacy enhancement and school readiness.
• Ongoing literacy enhancement for school-age children.
• ESL/ELL parent-and-family fun.
• All-school events that everyone will enjoy.
• Empowering parents and families to learn, grow, and connect with other parents and families at your program or school and in your community.
• Motivating parents and families to attend future school events because they had a BLAST at this one!
• Connection to your school, program, and community.
• Creating awesome parent/family/community “photo-ops!”
• Supporting schools and students, families and communities in urban and rural areas easily with a ready-to-roll resource.
• Hosting a demonstrably engaging event to inform future planning and support funding efforts.
• Giving families an awesome evening of food and fun! (Yes, serving food or snacks is HIGHLY recommended).
• Kicking off the new school year!
• Wrapping up the current school year!
• Doing something special for everyone mid-school year!
• Providing cool summertime activities if applicable. 
• Empowering programs, schools, and communities with a ready-to-go event and follow-up resources, if applicable, they can use to meet collective goals. 
• Enhancing and documenting parent and family engagement to demonstrate program impact, inform future initiatives, and support sustained funding efforts.
• Supporting ELL/ESL and multi-cultural events. Family Storytelling Night with interpreters is amazing for EVERYONE. (Patrick did this event on the Island of Saipan for speakers of 14 native languages!)
• Hosting a super-memorable event that raises the bar for parent and family participation at your school or program (and at home) all year long.
• Providing a super-interactive high impact parent and family event where everyone shares stories, laughs, and has fun.
• Celebrating the “make-and-take” COLORFUL family projects that are part of these events. (Great photo-ops!)
• Getting local newspaper and other media coverage (the colorful  storyboards are irresistible to the press). Press release template provided.
• Teaching parents and students a storytelling method (without books) to enhance literacy, build vocabulary and life skills, and draw strength from their community, school, and family.
• Leveraging a guaranteed-to-succeed daytime or evening events that matches your program/school mission, goals, and funding connections.
• Helping reduce stress in children through a research-supported form of story-sharing introduced alongside other methods and taught to parents as part of the event.
• Giving your families the chance to proclaim, “This was the BEST time we EVER had at a family night!”